Guides

How to get your photos out of iCloud

These guides are for people whose photos all live in iCloud and who want a copy of their own. Each one is about the originals, meaning the files exactly as your iPhone took them.

How to download all your photos from iCloud to a computer

A hundred photos are easy to grab from iCloud.com. For a library that goes back ten years there are better ways, and this guide compares them.

How to back up iCloud photos to an external drive

What size of drive you need, how to format it and how long the first copy takes.

How to move your photos from iCloud to a Mac

With Optimize Mac Storage turned on, your Mac may keep only smaller copies of many photos. This guide shows how to download the originals and get them out of the Photos library into a folder.

Which drive format works with iPhone, Mac and Windows?

Choose exFAT or APFS, check a new drive’s format, prepare one data partition and troubleshoot a drive that your iPhone cannot open.

How to copy photos from an iPhone to a Mac

PicFrom for iPhone is a free app that sends the original photos and videos from your iPhone to PicFrom on your Mac over your home Wi‑Fi.

How to copy photos from an iPhone to a USB drive

Copy the original photos and videos from your iPhone straight to a USB drive or flash drive, without a computer. Step by step, with screenshots.

How to copy photos from an iPhone to a NAS

Copy the original photos and videos from your iPhone to a Synology, QNAP or other NAS over home Wi‑Fi, without a computer. Step by step, with screenshots.